This easy-to-read modern tablature should be completely faithful to Alonso Mudarra's original tablature. Let me know of any errors you find. Donald Sauter.
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Short ID: AM23. Title: Romanesca: o guardame las vacas. Composer: Alonso Mudarra. Source: Tres Libros de Musica en Cifras para Vihuela... Libro I, folio XXIIII. Date: 1546. Facsimile: Chanterelle, p71. Tuning: Guitarra al temple nuevo (d g b e'). Time sig: Quickly. ("Phi" on Mudarra's 1st line. See general Mudarra comments.) Fixes and modifications (M=measure r=rhythm s=string): All rhythm values have been quartered. M14r4s1 original showed fret 9. Changed to 0 here. M20 original ended with single bar line. Changed to double bar here. Tablature elements to be added by hand: Fermata on very last chord. For the fun of it: Switch to vihuela tuning and play the Narvaez version (from Frederick Noad's Renaissance Guitar anthology, for example.) Without retuning, play this version by Mudarra, but on the middle 4 strings. This very nicely transposes Mudarra's piece to the same key as Narvaez's. Leading measures in Mudarra's original tablature: 1 8 14 22. Last measure is 30. *** Download and edit out all material above and below the tablature. *** See my printing tips in the page, "General comments on the tablature." *** Print out starting with the title line below. Romanesca: o guardame las vacas. AM23: Page 1 of 1. Guitarra al temple nuevo (d g b e'). Leading measures: 1 8 13 20 27. 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